Statutory Instruments Act 1992
LegislationReferenced in 17 bills
Heavy Vehicle National Law Amendment Bill 2025
This bill reforms the national law governing trucks and other heavy vehicles across Australia. It expands driver fitness requirements to cover more vehicles, requires transport operators to have safety management systems, modernises the national regulator's governance, and adjusts penalties to be more proportionate to the seriousness of offences.
Associations Incorporation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
This bill modernises the rules for Queensland's 22,660 incorporated associations and charitable organisations. It cuts red tape by allowing groups registered with the national charities regulator to avoid submitting duplicate financial reports to Queensland, introduces clearer governance standards for committee members, and updates processes that had not been reformed since 2007.
Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
This bill makes wide-ranging updates to Queensland's justice system, covering courts, tribunals, the legal profession, electoral processes, and victim recognition. It brings significant changes including allowing public identification of sexual offence defendants before committal, better recognition of unborn children's deaths in criminal proceedings, stronger oversight of JPs, and various administrative improvements.
Progressive Coal Royalties Protection (Keep Them in the Bank) Bill 2024
This bill locks in Queensland's progressive coal royalty rates by preventing them from being reduced through regulation alone. Any future government wanting to lower coal royalties must pass legislation through Parliament, ensuring public debate and transparency.
COVID-19 Emergency Response Bill 2020
This bill establishes Queensland's legal framework for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. It protects renters and small businesses from eviction, allows Parliament and courts to operate remotely, and enables documents like wills to be witnessed via video link.
Local Government (Dissolution of Ipswich City Council) Bill 2018
This bill dissolved Ipswich City Council and removed all councillors from office following a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation that found serious corruption and governance failures. An interim administrator was appointed to run the council until residents could elect new councillors at the 2020 local government elections.
Manufactured Homes (Residential Parks) Amendment Bill 2024
This bill reforms the law governing manufactured homes in residential parks to protect home owners—mostly seniors—from unaffordable rent increases and difficulty selling their homes. It caps rent increases at CPI or 3.5%, bans market rent reviews, and requires park owners to buy back homes that cannot be sold within 18 months.
Help to Buy (Commonwealth Powers) Bill 2024
This bill allows the Commonwealth's Help to Buy shared equity scheme to operate in Queensland by referring the necessary legislative power to the federal Parliament. Queensland is the first state to pass this legislation, enabling eligible Queenslanders to access government assistance to buy their first home with just a 2% deposit.
Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This bill implements 26 recommendations from the 2023 Review of Queensland's workers' compensation scheme to improve support for injured workers. It requires faster rehabilitation planning, prevents secondary psychological injuries, expands cancer protections for firefighters, and creates a framework for future gig worker coverage. The bill also increases parental leave entitlements and requires superannuation contributions for Queensland public sector employees.
Energy Roadmap Amendment Bill 2025
This bill makes major changes to Queensland's energy policy by repealing legislated renewable energy targets and shifting to a 'market-driven' approach. It renames the Energy (Renewable Transformation and Jobs) Act to the Energy (Infrastructure Facilitation) Act, abolishes three statutory advisory bodies, changes public ownership rules, and creates a new framework for the CopperString transmission project connecting North and North West Queensland to the national grid.
Ministerial and Other Office Holder Staff and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill gives the Director-General of Premier and Cabinet and the Clerk of Parliament explicit legal power to conduct criminal history checks on staff working in ministerial offices, electorate offices, and the Parliamentary Service. It formalises interim procedures that were already in place and aligns with criminal history check powers that exist for other Queensland public servants.
Emblems of Queensland and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
This bill officially makes the Muttaburrasaurus langdoni Queensland's State fossil emblem, and fixes several technical issues with parliamentary procedures including remote committee participation, privacy for unwell MPs using proxy votes, and the definition of the parliamentary precinct.
Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This bill simplifies Queensland's payment protection rules for building subcontractors and implements governance reforms for the building industry regulator. It clarifies trust account requirements, makes the QBCC Board more transparent, and streamlines licensing processes for builders and trades.
Betting Tax and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill reforms Queensland racing industry funding by increasing betting tax to 20% and guaranteeing that 80% of revenue flows to Racing Queensland, with minimum funding for country racing. It also establishes administrative systems for the mental health levy on large employers.
Water Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill strengthens how Queensland measures and monitors non-urban water use, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin. It requires water entitlement holders to use approved measurement devices or develop certified measurement plans, and enables telemetry for real-time compliance monitoring. The bill also makes various administrative improvements to water authority governance and water supply regulation.
Public Health and Other Legislation (COVID-19 Management) Amendment Bill 2022
This bill ended Queensland's COVID-19 emergency powers and replaced them with more limited, time-bound powers expiring on 31 October 2023. The Chief Health Officer retained authority to issue directions only for isolation, quarantine, masks and worker vaccination in vulnerable settings, with new requirements for parliamentary oversight and public justification.
Superannuation (State Public Sector) (Scheme Administration) Amendment Bill 2021
This bill enables the merger of QSuper and Sunsuper to create Australia's second-largest superannuation fund, managing around $200 billion. It restructures how the fund is governed while protecting existing benefits for Queensland public sector employees.